pigment

1. 1.

   acquire pigment; become colored or imbued

   Broaderhue
2. 2.

   color or dye with a pigment

   “pigment a photograph”

   Broadercolor

Other forms of pigment

plural

pigments·

past tense

pigmented·

present participle

pigmenting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about pigment

What does pigment mean?

pigment means "dry coloring material (especially a powder to be mixed with a liquid to produce paint, etc.)". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pigment?

pigment has 2 syllables: pig-ment. The stress falls on "pig". In IPA it is /ˈpɪɡmənt/.

What is another word for pigment?

Close synonyms include paint. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pigment a common word?

pigment is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.